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No. 796,108. l

` El Jl SEAL.

APPLICATIONPILBD HARM, 1905.

.PATENTEDYAUa 1, 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application. tiled March 24, 1905. Serial No. 251,876.

To all whom t may concern."

Letters Patent No. 676,415, dated June 18,

1901, consisting in common therewith in an improved seal in which the seal part is constructed without any threading-holes and with an open-fronted recess which receives a bight of both ends of a cord or wire and with a pliable lid-shaped projection to press such bight into said recess andto retain and cover the same preparatory to the application of the seal-press and within the press-fastened seal.`

The present invention consists in an improved seal or seal part of that description especially adapted to be made of very small size and at the same time with a high degree of security and also to be free from liability to soil documents or the like to which it may be attached or to soil the lingers or gloves of persons who have occasion to handle the seal.

A sheet ofdrawings accompanies this speci- Y iication as part thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved seal. Fig. 2. shows the open side or back of the seal part on a larger scale. Fig. 3 represents a section on the line A, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the ends of a cord superposed. Fig. 5 represents a section on the line B, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents a section on the line O, Fig. 4. Fig. 7 represents a section similar to Fig. 6 with the ends of the cord secured preliminary to the pressing operation. Fig. 8 is a back view of the pressed seal. Fig. 9 represents a section on the line D, Fig. 8; and Fig. 10 is a face View of the pressed seal.

The improved seal or seal part, (shown as a whole by Fig. 1 and on a larger scale byFigs. 2 and 3, and represented at a in Figs. 4to 10, inclusiva) is composed of two pieces, marked, respectively, 1 and 2, which are respectively of suitable soft metal, hereinafter termed lead,. and of tin (tin-plate) or other suitable sheet metal.

. The lead piece 1 may be stamped out of sheet-lead or may be cast in the form represented in Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, in which original form it is a circular iiat disk, with a central hole 3 and a perpendicular lid-shaped projection 4, the latter formed by the metal cut from said hole if the piece is of sheet-lead and in all cases integral with the body or disk of the piece 1 and located at one side of the hole 3 in all cases.

The sheet-metal piece 2 is in the form of the front piece of a hemispherical buttonshell or the like. At what is herein termed the back of the seal part the edge of the sheet metal forms a circular flange 5, which is bent over the lead piece 1 in the operation of completing the seal part at the factory. The convex front of the sheet-metal piece 2 may be provided with suitable lettering or distinguishing-marks, as represented by N Y in Fig. 10, or its shape, size, and color may suffice to indicate genuine seals.

Preparatory to the sealing operation the ends of a cord Z) or its equivalent, after first knotting them* as represented by the knot 6 in Fig. 4, or Without thus preliminarily uniting them, are stretched across the back of the seal part a, as in Figs. 4, 5, and 6. The lidshaped projection is then turned down upon and across both ends of the cord and, together with a bight 7 of both ends' of the cord, is forced by a finger or thumb of the sealer into the hole 3 of the lead piece 1, as in Fig. 7.

The seal is thus prepared for the seal-press. The die of the latter presses the lead inward and laterally, so as to free the seal part a from j the air-space 8 behind the lead piece 1 in the unpressedseal, solidifying the lead and therewith securing the cord or its equivalent Within the concavity of the sheet-metal piece 2, as represented in Figs. 8 and 9. At this operation the lead may receive any desired die-mark, as represented by Z in Fig. 8, and the seal is thus securely fastened, stamped, and completed.

As before indicated, pliable annealed wire may be used instead of cord, the size of the seal part may vary as required, the shape of the hole and projection of the lead piece 1, its circular shape, and the hernispherical shape of the sheet-metal piece 2 and of the pressed seal part as a whole may obviously be changed, and other like modifications Will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specilication-A l. A seal part composed of a disk of lead having a hole and a pliable projection at one side of said hole integral with the body of the piece, and a sheet-metal piece substantially cup-shaped and having an inturned iiange which secures said disk within the same at the back of the seal part.

2. A seal part composed of a circular disk of lead having a central hole and a pliable projection integral with the body of the piece formed by the metal out from such hole; and

a sheet-metal piece substantially cup-shaped and having an inturned circular l'lange which secures said disk within the same at the back of the seal part.

3. In combination with the ends of a cord or the like, a seal part composed of a diskshaped piece of lead having a hole and a pliable projection at one side of said hole integral with the body of the piece, and a sheet- Inetal piece having a concavity Within which said lead piece is secured at the back of the seal part, said pliable projection being adapted to be turned down upon and across both ends of the cord, and to be forced together with a bight of both ends of the cord into said hole of said lead piece preparatory tothe application of a seal-press.

4. In combination with the ends of a cord or the like, a seal part composed of a diskshaped piece of lead having a hole and a pliable projection at one side of said hole integral With the body of the piece, and a substantially hemispherical sheet -metal piece having an inturned flange by which said lead piece is secured Within the same, said pliable projection being adapted to be turned down upon and across both ends of the cord and to be forced together with a bight of both ends of the cord into said hole of said load piece preparatory to the application of a seal-press, and said lead piece as a whole being adapted to be pressed into the concavity of said sheetmetal piece and solidilied therein against the surface of the sheet metal and around said bight of the cord, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

EDXVARD J. BROOKS. Witnesses:

ELLEN LJ. BROOKS, ELINOR BROOKS. 

